The presidential decree lowering of U.S. flags to half-staff for South African communist convert Nelson Mandela offends me. I cannot remember our flags being lowered when Joseph Stalin died in 1953 or when Nikita Khrushchev died in 1971. President Barack Obama refused numerous invitations over 12 months to participate in the 150th anniversary commemoration of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address at the National Soldiers Cemetery in Gettysburg, final resting place of more than 10,000 souls. Nearly every president since Lincoln has attended some type of Gettysburg ceremony, but Obama has never set foot in Gettysburg, nor knowingly on any Civil War battlefield. Obama and all of his followers are communists, plain and simple.